CESG Contract Job Trends in Leicestershire

Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term CESG in contract job vacancies in Leicestershire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CESG over the 6 months leading up to 16 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CESG 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leicestershire 0.64% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East Midlands median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
Leicestershire

CESG falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 50 22 53
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 31.85% 26.19% 33.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 12 38
10th Percentile £324 £262 £179
25th Percentile £422 £410 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £464
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% +5.12% +17.41%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £530
90th Percentile £638 £661 £586
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £445 £445
% change year-on-year -5.62% - -1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £56.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +273.33%
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £23.43 £17.95
% change year-on-year -19.46% +30.57% +2.19%

CESG
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CESG relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire.

CESG job vacancy trend in Leicestershire

CESG
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CESG within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 16 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Ashby-de-la-Zouch - 1 - - 1
CESG
East Midlands

CESG
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicestershire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Assessment
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CESG Certified Professional
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (100.00%) Degree